Italians Sunbathing Next To Dead Children

Well, if it were Ireland, you'd have a big ring of gawkers standing around. Gouls. What do you expect the holiday makers to do? Go back to their hotels and wait until somebody removes the bodies? Or sit and wait until police arrive to take them away and question the holidaymakers (who are witnesses to the incident)?

I actually felt slightly sick reading that.

Jeremiah 16:1 wrote: »

Well, if it were Ireland, you'd have a big ring of gawkers standing around. Gouls. What do you expect the holiday makers to do? Go back to their hotels and wait until somebody removes the bodies? Or sit and wait until police arrive to take them away and question the holidaymakers (who are witnesses to the incident)?

I might've expected them to do anything but carry on as normal.

I was on holiday at the Amalfi coast earlier this year. If my wife had seen two children that had just died she'd be bawling her eyes out. I don't know what we'd be doing but I don't think I would've felt like soaking in the rays. I guess I probably would've been in shock initially. If we were wanted for questioning it's unlikely we would be basking on the beach that close to fresh corpses.

Granted, this is a tabloid and pics can sometimes be out of context but there does seem to be a bit of aloofness on the part of beach goers. The statements given to Italian TV from the witness seem to corroborate that.

:eek:

Thats crazy.

Lirange wrote: »

I might've expected them to do anything but carry on as normal.

I was on holiday at the Amalfi coast earlier this year. If my wife had seen two children that had just died she'd be bawling her eyes out. I don't know what we'd be doing but I don't think I would've felt like soaking in the rays. I guess I probably would've been in shock initially. If we were wanted for questioning it's unlikely we would be basking on the beach a few yards away from the corpses.

Maybe they were told to wait where they were.

Granted, this is a tabloid and pics can sometimes be out of context but there does seem to be a bit of aloofness on the part of beach goers. The statements given to Italian TV from the witness seem to corroborate that.

Aloofness? Seriously what are you basing that on? One picture shows a couple not looking at the bodies, possibly because they are upset. Another shows a man walking by while another man is sitting down adjusting his shorts/playing with himself. Maybe he's texting his friends so they can come down and half a gawk. The point is we don't know what the people were told to do, how they feel or anything else. Where are the photos of the people continuing to play football? Surely that would sell more papers but the photographer decided not to take them. I'm a little sceptical tbh.

I hate the Daily Mail with a passion.

Tails142 wrote: »

They most likely saw the people drown, we cant really see the expression on peoples faces from those photos.

Can you not see how unfazed and aloof they are from the back of their heads?

MissHoneyBun wrote: »

Awww come on. Regardless of your opinions relating to the Daily Mail there are photographs clearly showing several people cocked off on a beach with the dead bodies of two young children a few yards away. Dead children. I'm sorry but that is just fukked up. The fact that they aren't gathered around the children just reiterates how utterly nonplussed they are by their tragic deaths. Would you lie in the sand sunning yourself with dead bodies in front of you? I know I couldn't.

Cocked off on a beach? They were probably on the beach before it happened and are waiting around expecting to be questioned by police. Why should they gather around the children? That's just morbid rubbernecking and serves no purpose. The sensible thing to do would be to stay out of the way but visible to authorities if they are needed and that's exactly what they seem to be doing. Show me the pic where they appear to be casually sunning themselves? Do you not normally lie down to sun yourself? The woman in the first pic will have white lines across her belly from sunning herself sitting up like that.

There is no story. The Daily Mail is a rag. Nothing less. If they'd left they'd be aloof. If they stay, they're callous. People are always drawn to such tragedies. They don't know what to do, but find it hard to leave. It happened in a terrible triple drowning in Sligo a few years back. Even when the bodies were being recovered, people just stood or sat around. Again, there's no story. Rags like the Daily Mail are xenophobic crap anyway.